Game



Sept. 20, 1932. J. HIDEMANN GAME Filed Sept. 8. 1950 :viii-.3a. :FID: 4.-.

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BY 044.66- W,

f ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept. A20,

UJNT'IYTED STA This.

e JQSEBH. H'EIDEMANN, onnos ANeELns, cemnonna Galvin Applicatie-nils@ September 83 1930*,Serial No. 480,374, andin lexcefeptember 12j, 1929.`

yI Lhisinve'nti'on relatesto. devices,l though to; Some; extent. automatic, .makingit never-- theless possible; by.l a e handling; with i a A certain amount. of skill; to; function inza; certain Y g mannen.V @ne of; the-objects fof this invention. is to provide a v device in which areleasing. mein berl sets'. anoperating; member free to be v canghtby the operator. .by which in turnthe 1 lo releasingmember can beset free to beaga-in:

Anotherr obgect. 1s toy provide automatici.

Catching; means for:v the releasing member, byewhieh this; member* 1sy heldy 1n the device- 15 in` case that?. the; operator,-isjunsuccessful 11icatehinggthe foperagting member.'-

' Another: obj ect i sof-tosvprovide an automatic catchi-ng;v means .fonv the operating. member vby,l whieht-hef operating; member-v is returned l 2o to its inoperative position, in case Vtheop'eratorisS-,u-nsuocessfubm catching,- ready to .be released' again. in l a; succeeding-@operation.Y

Another; objeetzistoprovide controllingy meansffor; ther operating` member. f

meanssforfthe operiod/ingmember;

Another: Object iste-provid controlling; means #forf'z .thel releasinggmember operative by the operating memberV ifproperly caught? bfygtheoperator.: Y

' Anotherff object is to.- provide handling means. f orY the; releasing member by which releasingumembersbeyond ail certainnum-r ber.- in -\V operation are?auto'matically delivered.

intjo a1. storing- Compartment.` .y

members are prevented .from going through the.:(levace.,AY

froml the accompanying@ drawing,

operate according to this inventionff.y

Figi.; 2,73 is. a .fronti,elevationl of thegame idf ,fnomiwhichthe .frontx andthe partition lhave slightly enlarged scale.

Anothenobjectis2 to provide actuating Another? object is f to pprcf vide- 'checking- Y meansfby which. unauthorized i releasing:y

Qther1 objeetsf-zwillffappear from:v the fel; lowing; description; andf -a-ppendedf claim; ll

been removed and. also lportions otv certain ottienoperating parts,r to yfacilitate an illustration of the principal operating mechanisms be j hind theloartition.`

Fig. 3' visa: fragmentary crossseotion on line 3,.-3 of F1g.-2,"illustratmg the checkingmeans for the releasing members in@ HighA eis aV vfragmentary end elevation of thebhecking means in slightly enlarged scale. 1. [Fig isa fragmentary top-viewof the control meansfor the operating member extending into `the pathfo'f vthe releasing memberto -beactuated thereby.

Figi. 6 fragmentary topl View of the actuating 'means forfthe lope-rating meint-Jer;VA

As illustratech the frame structure 7' en# closes aartransparent fronty 8y and the partition 9so that there is a4 space left between Vthe N ransparent frontandthe partition;

portion l0 on which a ball or similar' suitable." operating .member `ll 'may `run for f operating purposes,-1th`e upper section 9.a.-being; there.- fore set-baclrfi'irther than the lower section' 9b .0f thepartion with respect tothe front 8.

Y The partitionhisset. o-ffto form-1a shoulder y, Y

inasmuch? as' there is then a narrower4 spacebetween thefrentS- and the lower yseo*- tion 9b, .the releasing, members 12', operating: in this section orspaceb'etween the lower sectionV 91, and the front83 are preferably offadia't-f or narrowerform.'

Thev operating member l1 is intended and design-ed toV come towards 'the frontthrough theaperture -l torunfeither towards Ythe left 1 or rights=overzthe incline-members lala ori 141, andfnfurther downwardover the other inclinemembers 15a'vv or -lgrto drop over-'orfrom.the:V

yfurthermost edges ofj thesemeinbers'in" the -d1reet1ons ofthe arrows 16,- be-mg'intercepted and defiected in its downward fallby thefpins On -a Successful handling of' the figure with 199.

the cup, the operating member can be brought to a position to fall through the enlarged or aperture-like portion 2O of the slot 21. this manner, on an unsuccessful handling of the figure 19 with the cup 18, the operating member 11 falls past the cup and figure upon the shoulder portion 10, to pass through the aperture 22 towards the rear, behind the partition, back into inoperative position.v

Quite a number of releasingmembers, after passing into and through certain operating stages in this `game-device, can be. made to appear behind the transparent front 8 and before the lower section of the partition as indicated at 12.

In this retained position these releasing` members are held by the wheel which in turn is held int-his retaining position by the pawl 24, preceding a discharge of the releasing members through the aperture 25 into the receiving cup 26, from which they may be picked up by the operator for successive or continued games.

A lever 27, disposed behind the partition 9,

L is, together with the pawl 24, mounted on alever extending and projecting into the path indicated by the arrow 33 of the falling operating member when this operating member is discharged rearwardly through the enlarged or aperture-like portion 2O referred to above.-

W hen the operating member 11' is successfully caught in the cup 18 behind the figure 19 and discharged through the portion 2O towards the rear behind the partition 9, the operating member 11 passes into the chute 34 in order to fall in the direction of the arrow 33 as stated above to come to rest in its inoperative position behind the catch 35, this being held stationary by the releasing lever 36, held in its engaging position by the spring 37.

The releasing lever can be disengaged from thecatch 35 by a dropping of a releasing member 12 upon the pin 39 of the releasing lever 36, as may be better understood from the illustration jointly of Figs. 2 and 3.

A chute 38is therefore arranged in such a manner as to bring a releasing member into proper position to drop onthe pin 39. chute 38 is in communication with the checking means Yroughly outlined at 40, by which a releasing member can be fed into the device in the direction of the arrow 41 as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

The checking means illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, and 4 consists principally of the hingedly connected halves 42 and 43 between l through.

bility of the halves serves to prevent the use rThis l which a releasing member can be deposited so as to roll throughthe chute 38 until the releasing member drops upon the pin 39 as and for the purpose described above. The halves of the checking means can be separated by the set-screw 44 along the lower edges 45 in such a manner that thinner or unauthorized releasing members will fall On the other hand, the adjustaof an overthick releasing member, since such a member will not roll or pass through the checking means in certain adjusted positions. A plunger 4G with the outwardly extending head 47 serves to release an overthick releasing member, however, and this device. may be removed from the gamedevice in order to eliminate unauthorized use of this.

The figure with the rearwardly extending cup is operative by a lever mechanism disposed back of the partition, the figure having a portion extending through the slot and, being mounted on the slide member 48, shiftable on the guide-bars 49, the cup and figure alone being in front ofthe partitionv and behind the transparent front. The lever 50, in operative connection with the'slide member 48, is mounted together with the lever 52 on a common shaft 51 andvconnected by the rod 53 to another lever 54, which in VFig. 1, whereby the inside lever mechanism is controlled.

By a turning of the knob 56, the figure 19 with the rearwardly projecting cup 18 can be manipulated behind the transparent front 8 and before the'partition i9 in such a manner as to enable a skillful operator to catch a downwardly passing operating member 11 even though this operating member may be interrupted and deflected by the pins 17 suddenly and quickly.

rlChe figure 19 and the cup 18 being manipulated in the space-between the front 8 and the partition 9 with the larger portion of the Y cup between the ligure and the-'partition during the catching manipulations, the operating member 11, when properly caught in the cup 18, is held in this cup between the front and the partition unless and until the Vfigure with the cnp -is brought to aV point whereby. the cup is coming intooalignment with the enlarged or aperturedp-portion 20,

until the figure with the cup is manipulated; to the discharging position before the enlarged portion 20.

When the operating member has been re,

leased from its inoperative position behind the catch 35 by the tilting of the lever 36 when a releasing member drops on the pin 39, the operating member rolls in the chute 57 to the operative position at 58. From this operative position the operating member is thrown or jerked or forced upwardly through the chute 59 in order to appear through the aperture 13 for the dropping and catching operation and manipulation described above.

The lever 60, under the tension of the strong spring 61, serves to force the operating member upwardly. For actuating the lever 60, the pins 62 are disposed to come into engagement with the lever 60 for moving the lever against the tension so as to increase the tension of the spring.

rIhe pins 62, mounted on the cross piecey 63 and therewith mounted, together with the knob 65, on a common shaft 64, serve to actuate the lever 60 against the strong spring'61. The knob 65 is also mounted on the frame 7 as the knob 56 and the head 47 of the plunger 46, to be operated and manipulated from the front of the whole device.

Any releasing member passed through this device in the manner stated above, upon hitting thel pin 39 when falling through the chute 38 in that direction passes on through the chute 66 which terminates in the partition 9 so that these falling releasing members pass through the aperture 67 1n the partition to roll through the chute 68 Aas long as this chute is not filled, the furthermost releasing member in this chute coming into contact and resting on one of the prongs 69 of the wheel 23. After the chute 68 is lled, the releasing members pass in the direction of the arrow 71 into a compartment within the whole device behind the partition, while as long as the chute is not filled the releasing members may be said to pass in the direction of the arrow into the chute 68.

The prongs 69 have a double purpose as will be understood from the above, one being the holding of the releasing members in the chute 68,'and, on the other hand, these prongs serve to hold the wheel 23 in its stationary releasableposition by means of the pawl 24.

Certain of the prongs are shorter so that they will easily pass the pawl 24, since the pawl by its interconnection withr the lever 27 is held in a certain adjustable position by the screw 72; while others of the prongs are longer to always engage with thepawl 24.

Under this arrangement, one, two, or morek releasing members can be discharged at a time, the releasing members in the chute 68 acting against the wheel 23 so as to turn it whenever the wheel is freed from the engagement with the pawl, depending on the number of shortprongs? between the longerV prongs. y l When an operating member has not been caught properly so as to gain the aperture 22,

' it automatically passes towards the rear into tion, a new releasing member will have to be inserted in to the checking device 40 in the direction of the arrow 41, since no releasing member will beforthcoming or discharged from the lower aperture 25.

The aperture 22 in the partition is very close lto the point where the operating mem- Y ber is normally located in its inoperative position so that the escaping operatingV memative position instead of'in the direction of the arrow 33 through the chute 34.

I-Iaving thus described my invention I Claim:

In a game, in combination with releasing and operating members, a controlling means to form the support for the operating member in inoperative position, a pivotally disposed pawl in cooperative relationto said support with its free end extending down to a point to keep the operating member in such inoperative position, a chute for releasing members, a centrally pivotally supported lever with one end locking said pawl in inoperative positionand with thesother end disposed under said chute operative by a releasing f ber' comes in the direct path to this inopermember dropping upon it from the chute for tion through said conduit to dropping posi- A tion, catching means adapted toy be moved to` catch the operating member from the dropping position, a receiver for the used releasing member, a conduit` to hold a number of received releasing members, a stop-rotor to hold the releasing members in the lastpnamed conduit, a pawl-mechanism adapted at one end to hold said rotor locked against rotating movements and at the other endl disposed so that the caught operating member will actuate the mechanism by dropping on this end and thereby adapted to release a predetermined Vnumber of said releasing members next'tosaid rotor, and means for controlling the said catching means. Y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name. 

